rainbow scattering

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rainbow scattering [′rān‚bō ‚skad·ər·iŋ]

(physics)

The scattering of particles by a potential that contains both attractive and repulsive parts and whose width is much greater than the de Broglie wavelength of the particles; analogous to scattering of light by liquid droplets, which produces a rainbow.

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